Vice President Khumbo Kachali on Saturday said he was shaken and saddened with the scale of disaster that has struck Kaporo area in Karonga appealing for more well wishers to quickly join in assisting the affected people. Kachali, who is Minister responsible for disaster, spoke after visiting Mwenitete Village, Pusi Trading Centre and Kaporo Trading […]
Malawi’s Vice President Khumbo Kachali has called upon the business community and NGOs in Karonga district to assist flood victims, saying government’s intervention alone cannot suffice to solve peoples’ problems. “There are so many companies in Karonga and they should show that they care by assisting people who have been affected by floods. These companies […]
The District Civil Protection Committee in Malawi’s northern district of Karonga is now battling to provide the affected people with emergency food aid as it has transpired that the District council warehouse is empty. Speaking during the emergency meeting Thursday, the Director of Planning and Development Bulukutu said that humanitarian emergency food aid such as […]
The ruling Peoples’ Party has said it appreciates the extent of damage and suffering people in Karonga have endured with the floods that hit the district’s area of Traditional Authority Kilupula on Wednesday and said it will implore on the government to quickly address the problems people are facing. According to the assessment report, 2,238 […]
Hundreds of families have been rendered homeless in the area of Traditional Authority Kilupula in Karonga district following severe floods that have destroyed their houses. The fierce floods, which hit the area in the early hours of Wednesday due to heavy downpours, have also dispossessed 10 families of police officers at Kaporo Station. An official […]
Vice President Khumbo Kachali has assured people in the Lower Shire theadministration of President Joyce Banda is looking for permanent ways of reducing disaster risks in the region through proper planning and disaster risk management. The disaster risk management committee in the district told Vice President that nine people have so far died since January […]
President Dr. Joyce Banda has said her government will ensure that people affected by floods in Zomba and other districts are well looked after until their livelihood normalizes. She was speaking after she visited flood affected households at St Paul’s Catholic Primary School in Traditional Authority Mwambo in the district on Friday, February 15, 2013. […]
Malawi Vice President Khumbo Kachali says government is taking all necessary measures to support those affected by floods which have swept through parts of Malawi. Heavy rains and strong winds brought deadly flooding the centre and south of the African nation. Three people have died, and nearly 5,000 households have been ruined. Speaking when he distributed […]
A total of 641 households in T/A Mwambo, Zomba have been rendered homeless, their maize fields and houses destroyed after Phalombe River swelled due to continuous rains which have been falling since 5th January. Villages hardly hit by the floods are those from Group Village Heads Magoli and Kathebwe along the boundary between Zomba and […]
About 2,000 families have been rendered homeless due to floods that have occurred in various places due to heavy down pour with the area of traditional authorities Mkumba and Jenala in Malawi’s southern district of Phalombe being heavily affected Phalombe district commissioner Atanazio Chibwana is attributing the flooding to continuous rains that started on Tuesday […]
District Assembly officials and the police on Friday barred State Vice President Joyce Banda from making an official donation of food, blankets and other relief items to families that fell victim of perennial floods in the Lower Shire district of Nsanje. Prominent among the relief items are 500 bags of flour. According to a senior district […]
Thousands of people in Malawi have been cut off from normal life after heavy rains that have been falling over the last few days led to localized flooding. Among the most affected districts include Nsanje, Blantyre and Nkhata bay where heavy rainstorms and floods have ravaged houses and other infrastructures. In Nsanje district, heavy rains […]
About 448 households have been displaced, face possible starvation and are at risk of catching waterborne diseases due to heavy flooding that has wrecked houses and crops since last week in Nsanje. According to Nsanje District Commissioner (DC) Rodney Simwaka, the flooding that originated from Shire, Nyamalikombe and Thangazi rivers has hit mainly Bangula and […]
Hundreds of people in Nsanje district have been rendered homeless after the Ruo River burst its banks and flooded an area that connects seven villages in the area of TA Mlolo. However, authorities are yet to come up with an actual number of people and houses that have been affected as an assessment exercise is […]